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730 ILCS 125/17.5

(730 ILCS 125/17.5)Sec. 17.5. Pregnant female prisoners. Notwithstanding any other
statute,
directive, or administrative
regulation, when a pregnant female prisoner is brought to a hospital
from a county jail
for the purpose of delivering her baby, no handcuffs,
shackles, or restraints of any kind may be used during her transport to a
medical facility for the purpose of delivering her baby. Under no
circumstances may leg irons or shackles or waist shackles be used on any
pregnant female prisoner who is in labor. Upon the pregnant female
prisoner's entry to the hospital
delivery room, a county correctional officer must be posted immediately outside
the
delivery room. The Sheriff must provide for adequate personnel to monitor
the pregnant female prisoner during her transport to and from the
hospital and during her
stay at the hospital.(Source: P.A. 91-253, eff. 1-1-00.)